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Time Warner Cable Under Fire From Bloggers For Metered Internet Plan

Dow Jones | Steven Russolillo | Posted 06.11.2008 | Business


NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Time Warner Cable Inc.'s (TWC) attempt at metering customers' Internet use ran into a buzz saw in the blogosphere on Tuesday. ...

Time Warner And Time Warner Cable Agree To Legal Separation

AP | SETH SUTEL | Posted 05.29.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — Time Warner Inc. said Wednesday it would formally split off its cable TV business, giving the media conglomerate a $9.25 billion wind...

Ex-AOL Time Warner Executives Charged With Fraud

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 05.27.2008 | Business


WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Monday said eight former Time Warner Inc. executives fraudulently inflated the company's online advertising r...

HBO Programming Going to iTunes After Pricing Agreement

Alley Insider | MIchael Learmonth | Posted 05.20.2008 | Business


Time Warner (TWX) pay channel HBO has managed to crack Steve Jobs' stranglehold on iTunes pricing. Sources tell Portfolio that Time Warner is set to a...

Time Warner To Spin Off Cable Unit

AP | SETH SUTEL | Posted 05.08.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — Time Warner Inc. said Wednesday it plans to spin off the rest of its cable TV business, answering investor pleas to further simplify ...

Time Warner Axes 450 New Line Employees

Hollywood Reporter Via Reuters | Gregg Kilday, Borys Kit | Posted 04.23.2008 | Business


Time Warner Inc. began laying off most of the employees at its New Line Cinema unit on Monday, six weeks after deciding to bring the struggling studio...

Microsoft Said To Be In Talks With News Corp Over Joint Yahoo Bid

Huffington Post | Posted 04.17.2008 | Business


The New York Times is reporting that News Corporation and Microsoft are in talks to make a joint bid for Yahoo: Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is ...

Comcast, Sprint, Google May Fund WiMax

AP | DEBORAH YAO | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business


PHILADELPHIA — Major cable, telecom and Internet companies are in preliminary, but serious, talks to create a national wireless network that wou...

Former Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons: Media World Divided Into "Suits" And "Talent"

First Thirty Days | Ariane de Bonvoisin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


First Thirty Days' Ariane de Bonvoisin interviewed former Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons, who stepped down officially in January and was succeeded by Je...

AOL to Pay $850M for Social Network Bebo

AP | ANICK JESDANUN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — AOL stepped up its bid to boost traffic and advertising opportunities worldwide as the struggling Internet company agreed Thursday to...

Time Warner CEO Open To AOL Merger Deal

New York Times | SAUL HANSELL, LOUISE STORY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


AOL, the company that introduced millions of people to the Internet, has tried to reinvent itself many times. The latest effort, like those before it,...

Icahn: I Made $300M On Time Warner

CNN/Money | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Billionaire investor Carl Icahn may have lost his bid to break up Time Warner Inc., but he will tell "60 Minutes," how he walked away with $300 millio...

NBC, CBS, Disney, Time Warner Line Up To Bid For Weather Channel

New York Times | Andrew Ross Sorkin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


A half-dozen media companies have signaled that they plan to bid for the Weather Channel, which is up for auction, people involved in the talks said W...

Yahoo Scrambles to Block Microsoft Deal

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Yahoo Inc. has extended a deadline for nominating candidates to its board, giving the struggling Internet pioneer more time ...

CNN Gives Biz Sites Run for Their "Money"

AdAge | Brian Steinberg | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Energetic newscaster Poppy Harlow stands in front of a wall of stock charts discussing Starbucks' recent decision to close outlets for three hours to ...

New Line Faces Shutdown

Wall Street Journal | MERISSA MARR, PETER SANDERS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


New Line Cinema, the studio behind the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, has spent the best part of a decade fiercely protecting its turf within Time Warne...

Does A Yahoo Takeover Make Sense For Microsoft?

Vince Farrell | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Vince Farrell

Microsoft's knockout offer is an obvious benefit for Yahoo holders. Does it make sense for Microsoft?

GOP, Dems Face Off In Corporate Boardrooms

Wall Street Journal | George Anders | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Political-campaign financing is supposed to pit rival interest groups against one another. But in this year's wide-open presidential race, some intere...

Jeff Bewkes On Yale, Greenlighting "The Sopranos," And How He's Going To Boost Time Warner's Stock Price

New York | Lloyd Grove | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Jeffrey Bewkes, the new chief executive of sprawling, stalled media conglomerate Time Warner Inc., hardly fits the mold of a swashbuckling visionary. ...

RIP, Netscape (1994 - 2007)

AP | ANICK JESDANUN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Netscape Navigator, the world's first commercial Web browser and the launch pad of the Internet boom, will be pulled off life support Feb. 1 after a 1...

Time Warner's Days As World's Largest Media Company May Soon Be Over

Bloomberg | Gillian Wee | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Jeffrey Bewkes, who takes over as chief executive officer of Time Warner Inc. next week, may be measured by how quickly he can dismantle the world's l...

More Evidence That Time Warner Plans to Break Up

Silicon Valley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Time Warner has a new head of Investor Relations: Douglas Shapiro, a former media analyst at Bank of America. Make no mistake: investor relations is a...

ESPN Poaches Sportswriter Reilly For $3.4 Million A Year

Silicon Valley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Everbody knows: Big old media is dying, and nimble new media is where the action is. We agree! But if you're a "content producer" who wants to make se...

Cramer: Why You Can't Own Big Media Stocks

Blogging Stocks | Jim Cramer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


No price is holding for media stocks again. Even though Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) (Cramer's Take) has some fabulous properties, properties that are doin...

Parsons Expected To Name Bewkes As Successor At Time Warner

Reuters | Robert MacMillan, Paul Thomasch, Kenneth Li | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Time Warner Inc Chief Executive Richard Parsons is expected to announce on Monday that he will step down and be replaced by Chief Operating Officer Je...